Downtown America : a history of the place and the people who made it / Alison Isenberg.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Historical studies of urban AmericaPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: xviii, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226385078 (alk. paper)
  • 9780226385075 (alk. paper)
  • 0226385086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780226385082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT 123 .I74 2004
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Contents:
Introduction: Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer, " "Mrs. Brown America, " and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The demolition of our outworn past": suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion: "The lights are much brighter there".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-419) and index.

Introduction: Beyond decline: assessing the values of urban commercial life in the twentieth century -- City beautiful or beautiful mess? The gendered origins of a civic ideal -- Fixing an image of commercial dignity: postcards and the business of planning Main Street -- "Mrs. Consumer, " "Mrs. Brown America, " and "Mr. Chain Store Man": economic woman and the laws of retail -- Main Street's interior frontier: innovation amid Depression and War -- "The demolition of our outworn past": suburban shoppers and the logic of urban renewal -- The hollow prize? Black buyers, racial violence, and the riot renaissance -- Animated by nostalgia: preservation and vacancy since the 1960s -- Conclusion: "The lights are much brighter there".

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